Dynamite I.m. Jessie Riethmuller In Hornby everyone is doing their best.People are wearing shoes in PAK’nSAVE and the shelves in Goodstüff are abundantly stocked and clean. In Valentine’s Buffet, the server asks God to bless my mum, and comps her birthday meal. The office manager at the big garage calls me ‘doll’, esteem for a grateful client. We…
After Amber Butchart Half-watching TV. Something lightI thought—a sewing history showre-enacting how they mighthave fashioned this or that back in the day. The presenter is chic—modern yet nostalgic.Her sharp & shining bob wrapped up in velvet froth,her vibrant eyes & lips aglow against her pale skin.She is expertise and whimsy, forensic and fun. At the…
we drive that corkscrewand ride it down so manytimes we are experts atreading the looks of otherdrivers for signs of spots leftat the top the administrationprints tickets numbered andhued for the doors of eachfloor there is no primaryentrance i negotiate a way inone night they move youfrom your own room to award of old men…
Three wordsobsessall herds.Our best intentswill hedge the betsand dredge up allthe past.Appalledhow fast the fadeputs paid. Zoë Deans lives in Ōhinehou and works in drug harm reduction. Their writing can be found in The Spinoff, takahē, bad apple, and others.
to enter: precision of inhale and exhale, stress and relief, of the form which enables her to speak, for without it she might utter something incomprehensible, even worse, truthful, but she finds herself leaning too heavily on each stress, like a child on new skates, about to fall head-first, she hides behind the structure of surprise, …
Based on Year 1 spelling list vocabulary Mum, Dad,I see the way you try to be kind, how you find it in your hands, your bones,make it with your lips.You dot it here and thereon a bump, a task, a gift, my name. At my agein your kid daysit was not as fun, not as…
The down and back puts me in a contemplative affectation occasioned by the miracle of buoyancy, which seems like a frivolous name for a state of being where without even having to grow a gas bladder I can inhabit both water and air in 25-meter increments. A human incarnation requires dual states which thought, like buoyancy, my swim…
You are the driver of the parked blue car. You are leaning over to kiss your girlfriend. Of the four hazards marked, which one is most likely to require you to take urgent action? A) Men of any description B) The feeling between your shoulder blades C) Perhaps you should check your blind spots again, check left,…
Light lies lightly onthe leaves—a numinousfurze intimatingmanifold elsewhereshere-and-now. Not true. Light liesabout where it has beenall day. It was far fromonly taking it easyupon such blessed foliage. For example(s),after having goneand filtered into a grotto,it noses amongstmucid understory. At the same time,someone—it does notmatter who—saw itat-large in off-pisteTimaru licking the curvaceousstuccoed walls ofmid-century houses,the kind…
by the phosphorescenceleft by the light bulb and in time the light went outit was enough to know I was lying in the cold sheetsfloating but not joyous not sad eitherbut continuing to see how each sentence kept onimprinting itself in the dark what was present in the half light was a single word BIRD there but not there as well and on eitherside…